BUSINESS

Full Year 2022: UBA Delivers Strong Results as Profit Hits $446.4m

  Africa’s Global Bank, United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, has released its audited financial results for the full year ended December 31, 2022, showing impressive performance across major indices. The 2022 financials, filed by the Bank at Nigerian Exchange Limited (NGx) on Thursday, showed that gross earnings rose significantly …

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‘Easier said than done?’ – Mahama jabs Bawumia with 2016 economic interview

The government is estimated to save almost 50 billion Ghana cedis this year from the suspension of external debt service payments and the domestic debt exchange programme, former President John Mahama has said. This windfall and a reduction of government expenditure, he noted, “could have been used to reduce the …

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Ghana stoic over South Africa visa waiver agreement

Ghana is yet to act in respect of a 90-day visa-free arrangement for ordinary passport holders with the Republic of South Africa (RSA), despite the challenges businesses and individuals currently have to go through to acquire a visa to travel to the Southern Africa nation. AviationGhana sources close to the …

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GCBL Releases First Quarter Progress Report As It Re-ignites Young Business Leaders Program

    The Global Chamber of Business Leaders (GCBL) has released its First Quarter Report for 2023, informing its  Executives and Members around the world about the progress it has made so far this year.   Signing the Report, which was released on March 29th, was the Chairman of GCBL, …

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Dr Nana Afriyie Support Women With Handmade

The women empowerment program which is seek to trained them into Liquid soap, After wash soap, Body wash shower cel and Dettol. Aspiring NPP parliamentary candidate for Wassa Amenfi East Constituency Hopeful, Dr Nana Afriyie, has an upcoming empowerment programme slated to take on 6th April, 2023 at Boakyewaa Hotel …

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Ghana to take delivery of passport printing machines from World Bank

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration is about to receive two giant industrial printing machines in three weeks from the World Bank under the Public Sector Reform for Results Project (PSRRP). Madam Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, said the arrival of these …

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Parliament passes three new taxes

Parliament has passed three new tax measures during an extended sitting of Friday, March 31, 2023. The said taxes also faced stiff opposition from the Minority Caucus in the House but the Majority managed to marshall all their numbers on the day to get the taxes passed. The three new taxes …

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Managers of popular Aburi hotel arrested for power theft

The managers of Hillburi, a popular hotel in the Eastern Region, have reportedly been arrested for illegally connecting electricity to their facility. According to a news report by myjoyonline.com, the illegal connection was discovered during a search of the hotel by officials of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) as …

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TOR cut off from national power grid over GH¢26 million debt

The Tema Oil Refinery has been cut off from the national power grid over failure to settle a GH¢26 million debt owed to the Electricity Company of Ghana, a citinewsroom.com report has said. According to the ECG, the huge sum is an accumulation of unpaid power bills covering several months. …

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Bawumia launches Electronic Tax Clearance Certificate for GRA

The Vice President of the Republic, H.E Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia on Thursday, March 30, launched the Electronic Tax Clearance Certificate for the Ghana Revenue Authority – Official (GRA). The new platform can be accessed through a QR Code, an online portal, or a USSD. The Electronic Tax Clearance Certificate enables …

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